Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Maps, and illustrations - by Scottish voyage man and explorer David Livingstone. London 1857 - First Edition. Published by JOHN MURRAY. The most important travel and research ever published about the African continent.
The book includes a summary of Livingstone's journey to South Africa for 16 years, a journey that ranged from the good hope to Luanda on the west coast, through the slopes of Zambia, to the Eastern Ocean. In the book a vivid description of the continent and its mysteries, accompanied by illustrations of South African animal and resident scenes he encountered on his journey. With insatiable curiosity, Livingstone, who is considered a "land explorer", managed to reach African areas where no European man had ever set foot, and he was the first European to discover Victoria Falls, and one of the first to watch African animals of rare species. South Africans had the first European Livingstone they met in their lives. Livingstone walked no less than 4,000 miles on the continent, and is also considered a national hero due to his efforts to eradicate the African slave trade by opening the continent to European trade (he managed to arouse English public opinion and get the British government to do the unbelievable - the British Empire pressured Hamud Ben Muhammad, The Sultan of Zanzibar and the ruler on his main island concentrated and conducted the slave trade, and thus stopped the slave trade). In 1873 Livingstone died in the village of Chiptambo. His African loved ones carried his body to the beach, from where it was sent to England.
[9], 688 pages, portrait of the author, [22] boards [3] folding maps. Gilt leaf cutting. Original half-leather cover with gilt inscription and spine decorations. Cover slightly faded. Good - very good condition.
